Keywords:
Environmentalism.
;
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
An introduction to the meaning and use of language specifically in terms of the study of the environment and the formulation and implementation of policy, drawing on a wide range of sources from the mass media to the specialist article.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781315820026
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3061213
DDC:
363.7
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Environment words, environet and the rhetorical web -- Environment words and environet -- The rhetorical web -- A new rhetoric -- Discourse and environment -- So what? -- Reading the texts -- 2 Topic analysis (I) -- Environet of topics -- Resources, energy -- Population -- Biodiversity, rainforest, species -- Multiple interpretations -- 3 Topic analysis (II) -- Pollution, polluter -- Global warming, climate change, the greenhouse effect -- Sustainable development, sustainability -- Earth, planet, globe, Gaia -- The environet as an open system -- 4 Environmental ethos -- Essential vision: sustainable development, sustain, sustainability -- Technical vision: energy -- Systematic far-sightedness: resources -- Inclusive far-sightedness: global warming -- Reassuring realism: pollution -- Reverent objectivity: Earth -- Emotive objectivity: population -- Restrained objectivity and its rivals: biodiversity and rainforest -- The role of environmental ethos -- 5 Constitutive figures: metaphorical argumentation, environmental irony, associative argumentation -- Metaphorical argumentation -- Environmental irony -- Associative argumentation -- From constitutive figures to figures of resolution -- 6 Figures of resolution: dialectic of catastrophe, the feasible possibility, overcoming the polarity -- Dialectic of catastrophe -- The feasible possibility -- Overcoming the polarity -- Concluding on solutions -- 7 Rhetoric and culture -- The achievement of rhetoric -- The answer culture -- A culture of argument -- Environet and modernity -- Appendix One -- Reading environmental texts: the methodology -- Appendix Two -- "Doing" rhetoric: a nuclear exercise -- Bibliography -- Index.
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